11-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- countersing — (ethology, of a bird) To sing in response to the song of another.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cryosurgery — surgery involving the local destruction of tissues by quick freezing for therapeutic benefit
- culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- demagoguery — the methods, practices, or rhetoric of a demagogue
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.
- discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
- discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- disgracious — Lacking grace; not pleasing; disagreeable.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
- dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drudge-work — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug report — (humour) A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
- drugged-out — being under the influence of drugs, especially a narcotic or an illicit drug.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- ego surfing — the act of searching for your own name on the internet
- egregiously — Conspicuously badly (used negatively).
- encouraging — Giving someone support or confidence; supportive.
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- envigourate — Rare spelling of invigorate.
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.